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usehold appliance Wattage
Air conditioner Central 5,000
Room 1,000
Clock radio 10
Coffeemaker 1,050
Clothes washer 425
Clothes dryer (electric) 3,400
Dishwasher 1,800
Dehumidifier 785
Electric blanket 80
Fans Ceiling 120
Window 150
Furnace 750
Whole house 500
Freezer (stand-alone) 600
Hair dryer 1,600
Heating 1,125
central, gas furnace 400
central, oil furnace 1500
electric, portable 1125
Clothes iron 1,400
Light bulb Incandescent 100
Compact fluorescent 25
Microwave oven 925
Personal computer CPU & Monitor 125
Laptop 25
Stereo 250
Range (electric) 4,500
Refrigerator 725
Sump pump 600
Television (color) 20-inch (LCD) 65
26-inch (LCD) 110
36- to 42-inch (Plasma) 250
50- to 60-inch (Plasma) 340
Toaster 1,100
Toaster oven 1,225
VCR/DVD 25
Vacuum cleaner 1,225
Water heater (electric, 40-gallon) 5,000
Well pump (deep well) 700
Originally posted by amraks
Wrecking Yards car batteries and autoshops car batteries.
Possibility of supplies for making weapons.
Originally posted by davjan4
Get a "Kill-O-Watt" meter, thebn you'll know exatly how much you use.
Freezer (stand-alone) 600 watts
Originally posted by Trueman
reply to post by phroziac
Well, got to tell you, I'm not 100% convinced the power collected goes back to the grid.
originally posted by: RocksFromSpace
It's powering surveillance equipment...